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KENTUCKY BAPTISTFELLOWSHIP
Equipping & Empowering. Cultivating Partnerships.
Engaging in Missions.
Kentucky Baptist Fellowship225 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy., Suite
205
Louisville KY 40222-4929
Phone: 502-426-1931Fax: 502-426-1612Offi ce email: offi
[email protected]: www.kybf.org
Coordinating Council Offi cers: Moderator: Linda Caldwell,
Middlesboro Moderator-Elect: Don Rogers, Louisville Secretary: Mary
Edinger, Middlesboro Treasurer: Susanne Jenkins, Louisville Past
Moderator: Robert Davis, Louisville
Term Expiring in 2010: Naomi Walker, Frank-fort; Robert Davis,
Louisville; Susanne Jenkens, Louisville; Margaret Barlow,
Louisville; Kitty Baird, Danville; David Platt, Louisville; Nancy
Fields, Covington; Patsey Jacobs, Lexington;and Iraline Craig,
Midway. Term Expiring in 2011: Bob Coons, Owens-boro; Charlotte
Benningfi eld, Owensboro; Jane Brake, Frankfort; Renee Purtlebaugh,
Louisville; Don Rogers, Louisville; Amanda Phelps Taylor,
Morgantown; Lynn Huff, Corbin; Don McFadden, Winchester; and
Kristen Terry, Louisville.
Term Expiring in 2012: Dwight Lovan, Owens-boro; Clarice
Johnson, Owensboro; Laura Albo-vias, Louisville; Naomi Colliver,
Georgetown; Susan Reed, Louisville; David Wells, Shepherds-ville;
Tim Doremus, Mt. Washington; and Mary Edinger, Middlesboro.
Term Expiring in 2013: Nibby Priest, Hender-son; Richard Mason,
Owensboro; Bill Thomas, Madisonville; Jeff Stone, Georgetown; Larry
S. Curtis, Winchester; Carole Cook, Elizabethtown; Tara Edwards,
Horse Cave; Adam Schell, Carl-isle; and Beth Parker,
Middlesboro.
CBF Coordinating Council: Barry Birdwhistell, Elizabethtown;
Jeremy Colliver, Georgetown; and Lynn Smith, Covington.
Coordinator:John Lepper
[email protected]
Associate Coordinator for Missions:Joshua
[email protected]
Administrative Assistant:Valarie Shoulta
[email protected]
Address Service Requested Non-Profi t OrganizationU.S. Postage
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Louisville, KentuckyPermit # 976
We are a fellowship of churches and individuals who sharea
commitment to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
On the Road Again: Traveling Around Kentucky With Our
Coordinators
John Lepper, Coordinator
August 3-7: Family VacationAugust 9: Third Baptist Church,
Celebration SundayAugust 10: Stanford Baptist Church, planning for
KBF Spring MeetingAugust 21-22: KBF Coordinating Council
MeetingAugust 25-28: CBF Leaders Meeting in Pigeon Forge, TN,
“Positioning and Growing Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.”
Joshua Speight, Associate Coordinator for Missions
Aug 3: Nada – Visit Masonville Baptist (Owensboro, KY)Aug 10:
Morocco Voices United Reunion w/Karen Thomas Smith in LouisvilleAug
13: Owsley County with Mark Howell, FBC FrankfortAug 16-20:
Together For Hope Council Meeting, Perry County, AlabamaAug 21-22:
KBF Coordinating Council Meeting, Crestwood, KYAug 23: Broadway
Baptist Ministry Fair – KBF RepresentativeAug 26-27: CBF Global
Missions Strategic Visioning Summit WebinarAug 27-29: Family
Vacation
Sep 12: Owsley County Repair Affair and Current’s Eleven-on-11
Simultaneous mission projects held in Booneville, Corbin, and
Louisville)Sep 21-25: Univ of Missouri Community Development
Academy – St. LouisSep 26: One World. One Purpose. Broadway Baptist
MDG FundraiserSep 28: Nada – Visit FBC Sylva (NC)
John Lepper and Joshua Speight are available to speak/teach/lead
at your church. Please contact the KBF offi ce at 502-426-1931 for
information and availability. Schedule seen here was up-to-date at
time of printing.
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KBF NewsKBF News is a newsletter of Kentucky Baptist
Fellowship.
September 2009
We are a fellowship of churches and individuals who sharea
commitment to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
Kentucky Baptist Fellowship’s Children’s Mission Day
“Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child,
you’ll never get in.” Mark 10:13-16 (The Message)
KALEIDOSCOPE: GOD’S PICTURE FOR ALL CHILDREN
10am - 4pm Saturday, October 17, 2009; Faith Baptist Church, 116
Pocahontas Trail, Georgetown, Kentucky
A kaleidoscope produces beautiful images - literally it means
“looking at beautiful forms.” God asks us to look at one another in
the way described by Christ - in the simplicity of a child who sees
beauty everywhere. Join us as we focus our refl ection on the
beautiful children in the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in New
York City and discover the “beautiful forms” God pictures in all of
us. Special Guests:
Amanda Rae Hambrick, CBF Field Personnel, Hell’s Kitchen, NY
Graham Ashcraft, Minister to Students, Pritchard Memorial
Baptist, Charlotte, NC Stephanie True, Minister to Youth, Ridgewood
Baptist, Louisville, KY
$20/child: 1st through 6th Graders (adults are free).
Registration fee covers: cost of program, lunch, and a T-shirt.
Each church should have one chaperone for each 6 to 7 children.
Please contact the KBF offi ce at 502-426-1931 or
offi [email protected] for a registration form which will be available
mid-August. Registration deadline - September 30, 2009.
At left, the Third Baptist Church, Owensboro choir presents an
anthem during the celebration Worship Service, Sunday, August 9,
2009. The Celebration Service marked the restoration of the
sanctuary following a destruc-tive tornado which hit the church on
October 18, 2007. At right, members and friends of Third Baptist
Church, Owensboro gather for a reception following the Celebration
Worship.
Third Baptist Church, Owensboro celebrates restoration of
sanctuary
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Fourth Annual Owsley County Repair Affair
Hosted by Owsley County Action Team & Partnership Housing,
Inc.Saturday, September 12, 2009; 8 am - 3 pm
Emma Quire Mission Center
To register or receive more information contact Josh at
KBF:502-426-1931 or [email protected]
Breakfast, lunch, and a t-shirt will be provided.
The first 25 people to register with KBF for Repair Affair will
receive a
complimentary Eleven-on-11 t-shirt from CBF’s Current (who is
also spon-soring simultaneous mission projects across the country
on September 12).
Talking/Texting/Twittering:Empowering the New, Engaging the
Present
Christian Education Conference,An Intergenerational
Conference
Saturday, October 3, 2009; 9:00 am-3:00 pmBaptist Seminary of
Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Sponsored by the KBF and BSK
Cost: $25 for an individual; $20 each for group of five or more;
$15 for students. Lunch is included. Register by sending name,
address, email address and church for each person attending
along with a check made payable to: Baptist Seminary of
Kentucky, 631 S. Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40508. For more
information call 859-455-8191 or email [email protected].
Broadway Baptist Senior High Guys To Host MDG Fundraiser
One World. One Purpose is spon-sored by a group of high school
boys from Broadway Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Wanting
to make an impact in the world, they decided to focus on the
Millennium Development Goals created by the U.N. Emphasiz-ing goal
number seven, ensuring environmental sustainability was the
challenge they accepted. The event will be held September 26th,
2009 at Broadway Baptist (Lou-isville, KY) from 10am-4pm and will
include many events includ-ing a cornhole tournament, 3-on-3
basketball tournament, a dunking booth, inflatables for kids, and
t-shirts for sale. All proceeds will go towards building treadle
pumps in Malawi and wells in Zambia. For more information and
tournament regis-tration, contact them at
[email protected].
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calendarSeptember 12: Owsley County Repair Affair Booneville,
Kentucky
September 14-15: Ministers Retreat - Windermere Conference
Center, MO: Led by CBF Initiative for Ministerial Excellence
October 3: Baptist Seminary of Ken-tucky Christian Education
Conference
October 17: Children’s Mission Day “Kaleidoscope: God’s Picture
For All Children” Faith Baptist Church, Georgetown Led by Amanda
Ham-brick and Graham Ashcraft
October 28-30: Listening for God in Our Lives - A retreat for
Clergy & Lay Leadership - Durham, NC
December 29 - January 2: Antiphony - A Conference for College
& Gradu-ate Students - Decatur, GA
2010
January 18-20: Outer Obstacles and Inner Resistance to the Life
of Prayer - A Retreat for Ministers - Dallas, TX
February 22-25: ChurchWorks Con-ference sponsored by Current -
Nash-ville, TN
April 11-16: Five-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation:
Spirituality and the Modern Prophet - A Retreat for Clergy and Lay
Leadership - Atlanta, GA
April 23-24: 2010 Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Spring Gathering -
Stan-ford Baptist, Stanford, Kentucky
June 6-12: Footsteps of Faith on the Civil Rights Trail -
Sponsored by Alabama CBF
June 23-25: 2010 CBF General As-sembly - Charlotte, North
Carolina
July 20-August 1: 20th Baptist World Congress - Hawaii
Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
ONLINE GIVINGYou can give online to Kentucky Baptist Fellowship.
Just go to our website, www.kybf.org, and click on
the link that says “Give Online to the KBF.”
Telling the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship StoryBy John Lepper,
Coordinator, Kentucky Baptist Fellowship
For some time now, I’ve made a concerted effort to be proactive
in saying thank you to participating churches. Along the way I’ve
had opportunities to tell the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship
story.
I have asked pastors of contributing churches to allow me to
take three to five minutes during a morning worship service to say
thank you. During those brief mo-ments I not only say “thanks” but
also try to share how that church has joined with other churches
and individuals to broaden their scope of ministry.
On some occasions, a pastor will ask me to take five to ten
minutes and tell more about what’s going on in the Kentucky Baptist
Fellowship. I have discovered that many individuals in churches do
not really know much about the purpose and mission of Kentucky
Baptist Fellowship and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and how we
differ from the Kentucky Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist
Convention.
On two occasions recently, two different pastors have asked me
to preach during the Sunday morning service and to come back during
the eve-ning service. Both pastors said, in effect, “Sunday morning
will give our people a chance to get to know you better and Sunday
evening will give them a chance to learn more about the mission and
ministries of the Ken-tucky Baptist Fellowship.” Those Sunday
evenings were very rewarding as I fulfilled each pastor’s wish and
also provided time for questions and answers.
I always welcome opportunities to attend churches and say “thank
you.” I also welcome opportunities to share about the mission and
ministries of Kentucky Baptist Fellowship. Please contact me if you
can provide such an opportunity.
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Workship a summer hit for Broadway Baptist This summer Broadway
Baptist Church organized a community-service event called
“Workship” in place of its typi-cal Wednesday night schedule.
Combining the two words worship and work, the idea allows people
who identify as followers of Christ to worship by actively working
together within their community.
Most churches are identified by their wor-ship or, sadly, by the
things they are against as a community of faith. It is not too
often that a church in any community is identified by its
partnerships with other vital service agencies in the area. Members
of Broad-way served at Americana, Hosparus, Kosair Children’s
Hospital, Gilda’s Club, West End School, and Family Scholar
House.
The idea behind Workship was to provide simple,
intergenerational projects that could be completed in one to two
hours by a diverse group of folks from Broadway, from the very
young to the most senior members. An unexpected result of these
interactions is that many folks at Broadway learned how easy it is
to serve and give an hour to a community organization leading them
to ask how they can volunteer beyond their Broad-way encounter.
Broadway member Maryanne Honeycutt El-liott dreamed of doing
mission work in Africa this summer, but started brainstorming local
alternatives when she realized the trip wasn’t personally possible.
Workship was born. “I wanted to model missions in our home,”
ex-plains the mother of 5th grade twin girls. The Workship program
is good for kids with short attention spans--and most adults, she
says.
Thinking it would be fun to include her mother, Maryanne worked
to build Workship relationships with non-profits where
inter-gen-erational work was available. The result was rewarding
for the whole church. Hopefully, now a few more people in
Louisville will see a Baptist church learning how to worship a
little more outside their church walls rather than inside them.
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From Nada to North Carolina By Destiny Branham & Emilee
Causey Monday, July 6th, seven women, six teenagers, and one infant
representing Nada, KY, boarded the First Baptist Winchester, KY bus
and headed for North Carolina. For five days, we traveled through
The Tar Heel State meeting new people and sharing new experiences.
This was a trip funded by First Baptist Church in Burlington and
Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh as an alternate way to partner
with the ministry in Nada. Destiny Branham, one of the teenagers
from Nada who went to North Carolina, wanted to contribute some of
her thoughts about the visit and appreciation for those who made it
possible: “One of my favorite memories of North Carolina was when I
got to see the big smile on my mother’s face when she saw the
never-ending ocean stretched out in front of us. From the first
wave crashing into me, I knew this would be an amazing experience.
Another one of my favorite memories was walk-ing along the sandy
white beach with Emilee and picking up unique sea shells, from dark
and rough to bright, smooth, and orange shells. I also loved
watching the seagulls flying, enjoying the ocean’s shore, and the
tiny blue-green crabs that sprinted sideways. Later on that day, we
went with Elaine Hill to the aquarium near the beach and saw many
different va-rieties of marine life, from the mischievous sharks to
the shy sea horses. The girls and I hung around the sting ray tank
and named the friendliest one Steve. He loved all the attention we
gave him. Throughout our week in North Carolina, we were
entertained by First Baptist Church Burlington and Millbrook
Baptist Church in Raleigh. I would like to thank Jerry and Elaine
Hill and the hospitality of many others for inviting us into their
homes and showing us God’s love.” Emilee Causey serves as KBF
Intern for the youth in Nada. She is a graduate student at the
Baptist Semi-nary of Kentucky pursuing her Master of Divinity.
Destiny Branham is a resident of Nada and one of the youth who
traveled to North Carolina.
June 2009 Highland Baptist Church/EEAM Partnership Experience By
Carol Harston Twelve members of Highland Baptist Church had the
privilege of traveling to Morocco this summer to help with the
migrant ministry based in Rabat and Casablanca.Our group included
seven college-age young adults and three high school juniors and
seniors.
The Sub-Saharan refugees we worked with in Morocco wel-comed us
into their lives. They invited us to worship alongside them.
Despite untold stories of struggle and grief, they poured their
praise and gratitude to a God who carries our burdens and allows us
to find peace in the midst of injustice. Our group was in awe of
their faith. For after all, these were people who had traveled the
dangerous journey from their home countries look-ing for safety and
a better future for their children.They traveled the long way only
to be stopped in Morocco where they face racial persecution and are
unable to find work.
We joined in interviewing migrants, hearing them voice their
struggles, concerns, and desperate pleas for help. We led a
Christian youth program three consecutive nights offering teenagers
a chance share Christ’s love, to play games together, and to enjoy
a warm meal. Through the funding and support of Highland Baptist
Church, we launched fourteen micro-enter-prise projects. Fourteen
families now have the opportunity to earn money to buy food and
clothing. Fourteen families now have a purpose with their days and
a shelter for their evenings.
Each night, our group debriefed the day’s events. We named the
injustice that these migrants experience. We went to the scriptures
and sought answers in the Jesus who said, “Blessed are you who are
poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God” (Luke 6:20). In moments of
frustration, we clung to the foundation - that we believe in a God
of miracles; who watches over the weary; who provides hope for
those struggling in darkness; and in our case, a God who opens the
eyes of those of us living in blind prosperity.
I bring witness to you ... that the prayers of these migrants
have permeated our prayers; their concerns have become our
con-cerns; their voices are the ones that still echo in our
minds.
Carol Harston serves as Minister To Youth at Highland Baptist
Church. A graduate of Wake Forest University, she is currently
pursuing her Master of Divinity at Louisville Presbyterian
Seminary.
